I gather this is a Prydaen and Rakash order. I am not sure what the purpose of this group is.


"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

Ok. The question is this.

What sort of education?

What sort of home?

There have been groups that have gone over board to excess in teaching 'traditional' lore out of the in game books. Obviously we need to adapt to the east.

However, there have also been groups that have gone over board to excess in teaching adaptation to the east to the point where Rakash and Prydaen are ashamed of their racial heritage. They will not purr, trill, move their ear or tail, enjoy the foods they are most suited to eat, use their claws when brawling, use the racial titles or use their own language, etc, because they believe these things are rude and kittenish or puppyish.

All this reminds me of how some American Indian children were taught to see their own heritage in boarding schools at one time in America.

http://www.twofrog.com/rezsch.html

I would hope that this group is going for a happy medium. Teaching the lore but also how people have found to adapt. I'd love to be able to actually read your site.


"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

Sounds like a good start.

There have been some very nice adaptations to traditional Prydaen food dishes that have been introduced in both Theren and Shard recently that you might want to share at your Teas.

I don't know if the Houses always served them. This might have been a consequence of the Prydaen that lived in Shard long before the migration as an Alchemist of note. You will find her story in the books in the Bard Guild in Crossing.

The other dishes are being serves by Lady Shantelle on her Buffet and I believe are due to her and her cook's effort to be the ideal host to all her guests. She has a number of Prydaen guests and she wishes to make everyone welcome at her table but does not wish to make any one uncomfortable either watching anyone else eat. So she has found a happy medium. She is truely a wonder.

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

Next time I have a character in Shard I'll go check out the Houses again and next time I'm in Theren I'll go check out the Buffet in the Trigomas residence again, or if you get a chance take a peak. You are in for a real treat.

I particularily enjoy the one bite meat spears Lady Shantelle puts out.

In terms of non-meat dishes, in the desert I find the fresh melon slices in spices that the King puts out in Muspari very refreshing on a hot day. I have a fondness for fresh fruit as well as fresh meat. But then one of my main characters is desert Prydaen and perhaps this is why.


"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

I imagine that the visitor felt that if you had no fresh food on the cart, it was a subtle indicator that Prydaen were not welcome, given the number hostile interactions recently that Prydaen have been faced with and the number of fresh things available that can be offered for Prydaen that do not have the sort of dramatic show the Shakahn's Grove food has. If the visitor came from the north or south, they more than likely were well familiar with the food offered in those places. Even freshly caught fish if scraped does not present a show that will gross people out. In addition, the mentor table in the Ranger Guild for Ranger Teaching nights regularily offers raw inkhorn haunch for their Prydaen guests, with no messaging that will gross out those not Prydaen.

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

The person didn't even ask me why I had no such foods, they just automatically jumped to conclusions. That's what bothers me.

And no, Ariawen, your suggestions were just fine. I wasn't planning on having any dinner-type foods, or any meats, hence why I didn't even list any myself.

If I had wanted a dinner party, I'd of thrown a dinner party.

It's just overly annoying to have someone come in and insult your work (even if it was amusing!) and not even ask why you're doing something the way that you're doing it.

I already have enough frustrations and get enough guff for running a racially-specific Order (almost every time I gweth at least one of the anti-prydaen snots has to chime in, or someone with some snarky remark about how Shadeau is racist, or something snippy about the Order only recruiting the two races). I really don't expect nor want extra guff from the two races that I'm busting ass for, I'm already subjecting myself to a lot.


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Let me see if I can run up to Shantelle's buffet and see if I can catch her ever changing thing just right. The spears are just one bite each and sound just right for this.

I don't know much about Rakash foods other than frat. But obviously their taste buds are different from other races given their response to frat as opposed to how other races respond to it.

I fully agree with the Lady Shantelle that one of the keys to making people relax and feel at home is to provide them with some of the foods and drinks from home. It's the small hospitable touches like that and attention to detail that tell people that you took the time to actually reach out to them and try to make them welcome for who they are.

So enough said. I'll try to get the info for you. I'm really swamped and I've been very ill and time is a real issue for me but I'll give it a shot.


"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

Apparently. I still can't read the charter.

In any event.

Here is the food I found today on Shantelle's buffet in Theren and in the bank Muspari and in the fresh fruit stand in Hib.

It's not hard to find fresh food that is not 'rude' and will make people feel at home and welcome, since that seems to be your goal now.

chilled platter filled with thin delicate slices of raw orange grek garnished with lemon wedges, a bunch of plump juicy grapes, an elegant silver platter with spears of raw meat arranged atop crushed ice, some iced raw oysters served on half shells. a black plum, an orange, a crystal dish filled with snow pears poached in a delicate sweet white wine sauce.

I believe rakash like apples and hot and spicy so i'm guessing these might be good from her buffet:

a platter of Therenborough apple-glazed chicken, a gold platter filled with tiny snowbeast sausages skewered with little sword-shaped sticks and served with a spicy radish dip, a trencher of barbequed turkey legs brushed with a spicy glaze

Now, I'm afraid I really am very tired, not well, and have very little time and way too much to do. So I hope your order does well. Good luck.




"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
--Eleanor Roosevelt